Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination

"Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination is one of a kind: already a classic in the field of comparative literature, its examples and case studies, analyzed with rare critical intelligence and subtlety, range across nearly every European language and literary tradition."—David Quint, from the foreword

 
    

~David Quint

“With subtle, teacherly guidance, Orlando takes the reader by the hand from the first page on and leads him step by step along his extraordinary intellectual adventure with the twofold result of smoothing out for him quite a few bumps in the road and co-involving him in the pleasure (and sometimes even in the pride) of discovery.”—Giovanni Bogliolo, La Stampa  

~Giovanni Bogliolo

"A work which stands confidently alongside some of the 'classics' of twentieth century criticism (from Curtius to Praz and Auerbach)." —Giulio Ferroni, L’Unita          

~Giulio Ferroni